Priority. Pandemic under control is his top priority. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot of the focus is on the number of infected with covid19. At bond growth, a lot going on, treasuries, for example, rising. Overheated equity markets, the deteriorating coronavirus situation in many countries. Oil demandtting its outlook, saying they will not rescue the market, and then i got a look, not very often, but coming out with figures that were not great but were better than expected, leading to burberry gaining one point half percent. 1. 5 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hey, laura. Laura good morning, francine. The recovery is being derailed by a rise in virus cases and a. Ew lockdown president elect joe biden is naming longtime aide dr. Vinjamuri ron claim as his chief of staff. His leading role during the Health Crisis of the Obama Administration leaving the white house in the 2
Kind of takes the relief trade, if you will, out of the treasury market. Have a vaccine but have to deal with the rising case counts. Its difficult for Bond Investors to show no caution to the wind. Think about what actually has the chance to survive. Jeff rosenberg is joining us right now. What a week it has been in the market, tested in several fronts. Lets talk about credit first. We have the fed and the treasury having a little bit of a spat over the emergency programs introduced this year. I have to say this market has responded quite well to it. What was your take . The the most important of support measures are not affected, these were not used very much. They were most effective on announcement date, not much uptake. The market is seeing through that, and its a little bit less of a significant Market Reaction because it is less of a significant issue, if those support measures were to fall away. Pointsn as my colleague out, hasnt harmed the appetite for debt. We have been tryin
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
A little bit more u. K. What weve got today, Kevin Cirilli, our chief washington correspondent, makes clear when he is on after midnight, we are not going to know many of these outcomes. Jonathan we do better because it is shorter and it is cheaper. We hope wednesday morning we have a result. This market fears this could drag out for a long time. Sea, wem sea to shining are having a vote occur right now. We see a number of institutions already. How about the bank of America Stadium in the carolinas . Carolina playing at kansas city this weekend. This is the first of the disciples in west palm beach, florida. It is a beautiful church, ravaged by hurricanes over the years. Yet today, there is the peace and calm of voting. I want to make clear that within the punditry, there is a question. How big will the turnout be after 98 Million People choose to vote early . Jonathan the pundits everywhere, all the time, it is all about the turnout. Is massive. No one knows what it means. Equities po
To the week. We are now focusing back on the virus rather than the vaccine. The german tenyear, some very weak inflation data out of germany today, sending yields lower. The price is coming up higher as well. You are also likely to have a scarcity factor coming into play as well. Yesterday indicating that the ecb is going to be on the bed, buying bonds. Hes got to think about what is going to happen in the bunds story as well. When you look at what is happening with treasuries, greece now has at the front end of its curve a negative yield. Just well on that for a moment. Greece is now a negative yielding country, albeit at the front end of the curve. Nevertheless, an amazing turnaround in a relatively short time. Alix an amazing eight year difference that makes. I was just reflecting on the sovereign debt crisis yesterday, so that is an amazing stat. New virus cases may be easing in some parts of europe as virus hotspots could offer a glimmer of hope and some of the worst hit countries